Weekly Leaflet - Congregation Ner Tamid

Welcome to Congregation Ner Tamid!
Be a part of our Family!
Call 415-661-3383 for Membership Information
Shanah Tovah v’Metukah!
 MAY THEIR MEMORY BE A BLESSING 
May you be blessed with a good and sweet year!
YAHRZEITS THIS WEEK, SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 6, 2016
or to be put on our Mailing List.
 PERSONAL EVENTS IN OUR SYNAGOGUE FAMILY 
Yom Huledet Same’ah! ~ Happy Birthday to:
Chuck Amital (09/23); Moshe Portman (09/30); Irina Dukhovny (09/30)
Pablo Libedinsky (10/03); Susan Julius (10/03)
Regina Blum (10/11); Karen Amital (10/12)
Sarah Davis (10/14); Barbara Davis (10/14)
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Happy Anniversary Wishes to:
Sally & Tom Lagerquist (10/06)
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Refua’h Shelema ~ We wish a recovery to:
Sue Scheiter; Yael Lachman; Regina Blum; Adele Davis; Henry Slamovich
Joseph Anmuth; Al Bernzweig; Margot Braun; Tom Lagerquist
Chaya Masya bat Tova; Lila Kluger; Stu Gross
Shalom u’Menuha ~ We wish courage and comfort to:
••• HIGH HOLY DAY & FESTIVAL SERVICES AND EVENTS •••
Sunday, October 2, 6 PM: Erev Rosh Hashanah Services
Monday, October 3, 9 AM: 1st Day Rosh Hashanah Services
Tuesday, October 4, 9 AM: Abridged 2nd Day Rosh Hashanah
Service followed by 2nd Day Symposium (See other leaflet column.)
Wednesday, October 5, 6:15 PM: Basic Hebrew with Emerson
Wednesday, October 5, 7 PM: Al Bernzweig’s Painting Class
Thursday, October 6, 9:30 AM: Torah Study Breakfast Club
Sunday, October 9, 10 AM: Cemetery Memorial Service
Tuesday, October 11, 6:30 PM: Kol Nidre
Wednesday, October 12, 9 AM: Yom Kippur Services with Yizkor.
Conclusion of Fast, Havdalah and Shofar blowing at 7pm
Thursday, October 13, 4 PM: Deadline for Discover Shabbat
Dinner. Contact the office to make your reservations.
Thursday, October 20, 12 PM: Four Synagogues Rotating Lunch n’
Learn, with Rabbi Moshe Levin, at BIJ/Or Shalom. Stay longer to make
sandwiches for the homeless in the Tikkun Olam Hunger Project.
Friday, October 21st, 6 PM: Discover Shabbat Services & Dinner,
sponsored by Charles Drucker in honor of our Ner Tamid Volunteers.
THE
NEW YORKER with Rabbi Moshe Levin
Sarah Rosnow
YAHRZEITS, WEEK OF OCTOBER 7 – 13, 2016
Ben A. Katz; Max Mayer; Reine Hassid; Anna Levenson
Dorothy M. Katz; Alice Laderman; Erich Pinto; Albert Davis
David J. Geltzer; Mollie Gold; Sol Jebaltosky
Edward Berkowitz; Jacob Steinlauf; Sidney Beck
Inge K. Wolf; Harlod H. Wolf; Bernard Strauss; Eli Asher
Bentkovski Family; Karl Herschmann; David Schechter
Hanah Schechter; Bernard Isaac Schechter; Gitel Schechter
Benjamin Paul Greenberg; Joseph Herschmann
To dedicate a plaque in memory of a loved one, please call the office.
Bold denotes a plaque on Memorial Wall
NER TAMID ANNUAL CEMETERY MEMORIAL SERVICE
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9, 10 AM
In accordance with the long-standing tradition, Rabbi Levin will
lead a special Service at the Ner Tamid section of Salem Memorial
Park at 10 am, on October 9th, the Sunday before Yom Kippur. In
addition, he will accompany congregants to other cemeteries by
request after the main Service. At this season in which we become
aware of our own human frailty, it is particularly fitting to feel the
presence of those who were so much a part of our lives before
their passing.
Please inform us of any illness or life cycle event.
Rabbi Levin would like to know so that he can call or visit.
Can You Make A Lulav Shake?
Join us on Sukkot with a Lulav & Etrog in your hands,
and make that lulav shake! They are being flown in
from Israel, and all it takes is $45 to hold this mitzvah
in your hands! Please contact the office next
Wednesday to order.
Evcei Joshua Baltor; Rosa Taub; Moshe Honig
Joseph Hassid; Rebecca Fox; Wally Rothschild
Jakob Gewelbe; Rebecca Goldkind; Samuel Fishel
Annie Jagorda; Max Stein; Eleanor Bloom nee Weinroth
Louis Rosenberg; Feige Bresler; Lea Reinberg
Nicolai Reinberg; Pincus Geltzer; Mendell Jaffe
Sidney Ruderman; Sydney Stein Rich; Hannah Herman
Alexander Bloom; David Freed
“They gave me a big one ‘cause I never complained about
my mothers’ overdone Rosh Hashanah brisket.”
The 2016-17 Salem Memorial Park and Sinai calendars for 5777
are available in the foyer. No charge.
Torah Sparks
CONGREGATION NER TAMID
Sponsored by Susan Julius; Summaries by Rabbi Michael Gold
Edited by Rabbi Moshe Levin
NITZAVIM
AND
1250 Quintara Street  San Francisco, CA  94116
Main: (415) 661-3383
Fax: (415) 661-9041
[email protected]
www.NerTamidSF.org
VAYELEKH
Nitzavim: Torah Reading: p. 1165;
Vayelekh: Torah Reading: p. 1185;
Haftarah: p. 1180
Haftarah: p. 1235
Rabbi Moshe Levin
Baal Koreh Zvi Kalinski
Summaries of the Parashot:
Nitzavim begins, “You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord
your G-d.” Men, women, and children, all were present at the Divine
Covenant made with the People. There is a warning of the
punishments that will occur if they turn aside from the Covenant.
They are also told that the Israelites have a choice of life or death, a
blessing or a curse. The passage concludes with the famous line,
“Therefore choose life.”
Vayelekh begins with Moses noting that he is now 120 years old and
getting weak. The Israelites will conquer the land but under the
leadership of Joshua. Moses writes down the teaching and gives it to
the priest who will carry it in the Ark of the Covenant. Moses
commands the People to gather once every seven years at the
Festival of Sukkot for a public reading of the Torah. This ruling
became the basis for the public reading in every synagogue on
Shabbat mornings and eventually Shabbat afternoons and Monday
and Thursday mornings. Moses’ time to die is coming, and he writes
a poem to teach the people Israel.
Cantor Rudy Hassid
Administrator Adele Shafer
President Charlotte Hyman
This leaflet is for the Shabbatot of Nitzavim and Vayelekh
28 Elul — 6 Tishrei, 5776; September 30 – October 8, 2016
NITZAVIM & VAYELEKH/SHABBAT SHUVAH
HIGH HOLY DAY FOOD DRIVE & MAZON
The SF Food Bank has asked our support of an effort to feed hungry
families, senior citizens and individuals in our city.
When you come to Services over the High Holy Days, please place
your donations of nonperishable food items in the Food Bank
receptacle in the foyer.
In medieval times, before a fast, it was customary for people to give
to charity the amount of money they would save by not eating on
Yom Kippur. Mazon, the Jewish Response to Hunger, has made it
easy to carry on this ancient tradition by providing us with donation
envelopes. These can be found in the literature rack in the foyer.
To contribute to the Golden Book of Life, please call Shirley
Edelson, at 664-3953. Minimum acknowledgment $10.
Raskin’s drawing is inspired by the famous prayer “Unetaneh
Tokef” encouraging us to use this day to manage our ways for the
better by imagining our fate as being written on Rosh Hashanah
and sealed on Yom Kippur. This leaflet serves the Shabbat before
Rosh Hashanah, and the one before Yom Kippur. The latter is
known as Shabbat Shuvah.